VHS

American  

Trademark.

1. a format for recording and playing VCR tape, incompatible with other formats.

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VHS British  

abbreviation

1. video home system: a video cassette recording system using 1/ 2 ″ magnetic tape

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Example Sentences

The subsequent invention of the cassette tape set the stage in the 1980s for both the VHS vs.

From The Wall Street Journal

Matt pops in a VHS tape of “Back to the Future” and gets to work, tinkering with the RV in their backyard to give it the proper Zemeckian flair.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet, like so many other millennials, I religiously set the VHS player to record “Dawson’s Creek” every week on the WB.

From Los Angeles Times

My parents didn’t approve of their impressionable child devouring the semi-debaucherous teen melodrama, so I labeled the VHS tapes “The Brady Bunch,” then routinely snuck out of bed late at night to quietly watch Dawson, Joey, Pacey and Jen navigate their hormonal angst via unbelievably erudite dialogue.

From Los Angeles Times

Give thanks, then, for cinema’s rescue squad—those working to preserve and restore neglected movies, from total obscurities to films that are well-known but hard to find or exist only in versions reminiscent of a battered VHS tape.

From The Wall Street Journal